Archive for July 11, 2010

Manhattan Adult Entertainment: Glenn Beck VS Margaret Sanger: The Truth Of Eugenics

Thanks to wealthy supporters, like John D. Rockefeller Jr., Sanger established the first legal birth control clinics by 1924. With financial support from the Bureau of Social Hygiene, Sanger began to mingle birth control with population control and eugenics. The social hygiene movement was Darwinian in nature and sought to purify society through sterilization of ‘certain groups’ in society. Most of these clinics were opened in neighborhoods populated by mostly the poor and minorities.
The social hygiene movement had it’s start in the late 19th Century, and became sufficiently powerful enough to get the Mann Act passed by the U.S. Congress in 1910. Under the guise of prohibiting white slavery and prostitution, the Mann Act was gave the government a wide range of reasons to arrest people for ‘immoral behavior’.

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Manhattan Adult Entertainment: Staying Behind Bars on a Claim of Innocence

Now, after his long and successful battle to get DNA tests and previously undisclosed records, a new team of lawyers has persuaded Acting Justice Sheryl Parker of State Supreme Court to hold a hearing on Mr. Wagstaffe’s claims that he is innocent and that his trial was ruinously flawed by official misconduct and poor legal representation. It will be held this fall. Lawyers for Mr. Connor, 42, are also arguing that his conviction should be overturned on the same grounds.
Last October, the authorities disclosed for the first time that the main prosecution witness — and the only one to directly tie Mr. Wagstaffe and Mr. Connor to the crime — had been a police informant for several years before the trial. The witness, who was addicted to drugs and supported herself as a prostitute, has since died. Although the defense had asked in 1992 if informants had been used in the case, the prosecution did not reveal that its central and very troubled witness had a history of working with the police.

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